Ramblings from Oz

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

This whole bit about "safety," is a result of speculative building, which accounts for the vast majority of residential construction in this country. You're never going to change that, and if you want something that's going to work, you're going to have to pay for it. Stop the delusion that just because someone makes a claim, that it will work. Know, don't assume. If there is a domicile you are considering buying laying within in a region with certain risk factors, assume that it does not meet the requirements to resist failure, and have someone qualified in assessing such things do that for you. You may also need to do some type of retrofit, or outright demolition and a complete rebuild.

You don't have a fucking clue about what this is about, Joshie, so take whatever you think is your opinion, and cram it up your ass.

Friday, May 27, 2011

What do you fucking Libtard pukes think of that, after mewling for years about how the Patriot Act was such a bad idea (true), how stupid it was for Congress and Bush to pass it into law (again, true), and how much you wanted it repealed, and how Barry was going to restore faith and prestige to the U.S., and yada, yada, yada?

He had the chance to VETO that fucker, and instead, signed an extension to that nightmare whilst sitting in France.

This is something that we architects learned along the way to getting a professional degree in something other than being a smartass; earthquakes can be mitigated...to a degree. Any natural disaster, if severe enough, will take down a building.

And now, people are being tried for manslaughter in Italy for not informing the public about an event that can't entirely be predicted.

Nuts.

Just like Joshie.

UPDATE: The Profile of the Idiot du jour. Tells me volumes about him, and his personality. Self-described, "Baby sitter of things & People i.e. Security," he seems to vision himself as some sort of overseer, and it shows.

"The power of state necessarily devolves away from "law" and more toward "rule" as its interventions distort the culture into more frequent and greater crises, requiring range-of-the-moment responses..."

Well put.

This is the way of the authoritarian, statist pricks who've set up generations of a "system" for squashing what would have been a free exercise of natural rights a hundred years ago.

Hey Pot, this is Kettle...

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

"Does this sound familiar?: Treasury to tap pensions to help fund government. It is notable that the mass media is presently full of headlines about a banking official arrested for rape. (IMF Chief DominiqueStrauss-Kahn - Ed.) But who is going to bring Tim Geithner to justice for raping millions of taxpayers? (On a similar note, SurvivalBlog reader R.E.T. wrote to mention: "If a private company did this, it would rightly be called theft and the CEO would go to jail." (emphasis - Ed.)

I'd really like to see that whole bit go down on TV, Timmy and Helicopter Ben getting sent to the pokey, wouldn't you?

Thursday, May 12, 2011

And as noted at SurvivalBlog, this is probably coming to a country near you...and if it does, I'm not so sure it will be received in the manner that the Pigs intend.

Then again, this country is about two-thirds Commie, with a BUNCH of over-the-hill Hippies (my sincerest apologies to DirtCrashr and Mark B.) who are sure their due has come, so it wouldn't surprise me to see a groundswell of outright support for this confiscatory horseshit, either, Since the Me Generation is all about getting all of that free stuff that was set up for old people.

Thursday, May 05, 2011

Never have I seen anything that so precisely conveys what this debacle of Governmentally instituted "Healthcare" is capable of, when put to light in this manner.

Look; The Government foisting this ridiculous "account" non-sense on the proles is nothing more than a God-Damned invitation for them to tell you, later of course, exactly how much of it you can have, both the saving, and the spending, and by way of that, the consumption of gasoline, or, again later, natural gas for your home heating (or fuel oil for you East Coasters), or electricity, or even your fucking toilet paper.

Get it yet now?

This is a suck-ass model for "controlling" prices, since it has fuck-all to do with the consumer having any sort of direct access to the product. Instead, it does little more than give the government direct permission to route money (please understand that this is your productivity...your very life) into yet another shell game that they get to arbitrarily manipulate.

Monday, May 02, 2011

I suppose we should all do a little dance, or something, however, this whole thing with the Islamo-fascists is not over.

Oh, and I think it a big mistake to have supposedly "buried" the asshole at sea, and instead, should have sent him to the nearest taxidermist. Trophy value isn't nearly as high as the reminder it would serve to the rest of humanity; and lest anyone think it distasteful to do something of that sort, please remember that Vlad Ilyich is still on display, a full 80+ years after giving up the ghost, albeit as a strange reverence to the man...sick as that may be.